Alf Clausen Fired!

[JSngry]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/longtime-simpsons-composer-alf-clausen-fired-w500530

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Firing this dude pretty much means firing the entire orchestra. After all these years? Totally classless.

It makes me chuckle when the so called "progressives" like Groening and company whine about "corporations cutting jobs in favor of profits" but continue to do just that and so much more.

I gave up on the Simpsons years ago.

[JSngry]

Has Groening himself made actual comments along those lines? If so, yeah. Alf Clausen contribution to the show's history has been immense. Respect, please!

I've not watched the show regularly for years, but still find it funny enough when I do. But it's really a formula now, it seems. A funny formula, but....a formula is a formula. I bet AI could write a script, if not now, sooner rather than later.

AI is supposedly capable of "creativity" now...I suppose this is the wave of the future, so...think of all the free time we'll all have to watch Simpsons reruns now! The funny ones!

https://www.axios.com/why-brands-should-care-about-ai-2468323821.html

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Not sure why I dropped Simpsons, I guess it had just run it's course with me. Family Guy on the other hand still makes me laugh.

This AI shit is getting crazy. I wonder if AI will ever find a cure for cancer or as with a lot of this technology just think of more bullshit we can all live without to clog up electronics and our day with. Progressive ways to kill jobs.

Here is the big questions... How long before AI forms it's own union?

[JSngry]

Not so fast - AI (and genetic sciences) will allow us to become Gods!

[Ted O'Reilly]

I guess I read too literally, but I see "AI" in this font and read Al -- you know, as in Albert or Alan...  Try this:  AI and Al.  (But I do hope that Albert will make me a God!)

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1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Not so fast - AI (and genetic sciences) will allow us to become Gods!

Not sure I'm ready for all that. Sometimes just a little respect and some good service at the local bar or restaurant is enough for me.

The dude from Tesla is saying AI (as in artificial intelligence) will be the the cause of a WWIII (as in the number three, not three I's)

On a side note about Tesla. While checking into a hotel along I-40 in Texas last week, the desk clerk said "hey your last name is almost Tesla. I bet you wish it was". I responded (politely), the car company is not owned by someone named Tesla, I'm pretty sure he just thought it sounded cool and maybe as tribute at to Nikola Tesla. Would I like to have dude's money? Hell yeah, but my name has a long and proud history. So no, I do not wish my last name was Tesla. Her response, "well there is a welcome happy hour at 5:00 pm and breakfast starts at 6:00 am".

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[JSngry]

1 hour ago, catesta said:

Not sure I'm ready for all that. Sometimes just a little respect and some good service at the local bar or restaurant is enough for me.

The dude from Tesla is saying AI (as in artificial intelligence) will be the the cause of a WWIII (as in the number three, not three I's)

On a side note about Tesla. While checking into a hotel along I-40 in Texas last week, the desk clerk said "hey your last name is almost Tesla. I bet you wish it was". I responded (politely), the car company is not owned by someone named Tesla, I'm pretty sure he just thought it sounded cool and maybe as tribute at to Nikola Tesla. Would I like to have dude's money? Hell yeah, but my name has a long and proud history. So no, I do not wish my last name was Tesla. Her response, "well there is a welcome happy hour at 5:00 pm and breakfast starts at 6:00 am".

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So...were you in Amarillo by happy hour? Or Breakfast? By the time you got to Phoenix, you'd be hungry as hell!

You might want Elon Musk's money, but you might well already have more money that Nikola Tesla died with!

But it's not just Musk talking about WW111, Putin's talking about whoever controls A will rule the world. So you know if "powerful" people are starting to talk openly about it like that, it's already well under way. So...stock up on peanuts and enjoy the parade.

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Hell yeah, I was in Amarillo by happy hour. I make it a point when heading west to stay the night there whenever feasible rather than somewhere in New Mexico. No offense to New Mexicans, Id just rather drive through it than live it. There are far better places and far worse than Amarillo but I found a spot (regional chain) next to where I stay that serves up a decent meal along with a fine selection of adult beverages and the people behind and at the bar always seem very friendly.

Yeah, I read that shit about Putin and others saying similar. We probably all have reason to be concerned. I'm putting a piece of paper and tape over the camera on this here laptop as I type this.